Just like she’s particularly sweet after her breakfast in the morning, Nora’s pretty cute after her dinner in the evening and before bed. Her sleepiness gives her a drunken wildness that’s very funny. This video was recorded on January 5, 2010. [Have you noticed how hard it is not to hit that zero key twice in a row when typing the year?] The pair of green pajamas you see here, which I call her Space Monkey Suit, has now been retired, as it is now too small and she’s worn a hole in one heel from kicking the floor so much.
When these pajamas arrived from Bulgaria back in April, they seemed so strange. All the pajamas and clothes we’d received for Nora until that point were pretty, soft pastels and small newborn-sized. The strong dark purple and green in these enormous pajamas seemed so…not for babies. Not to mention that all the pajamas we had [...]
A couple years ago, I was strumming along randomly to a G-C-D pattern (in this case it’s really A-D-E) when I noticed that I was playing Wild Thing. I learned the dozen words that make up the lyrics and was jamming along, when my brain switched songs on me, and I started singing Louie Louie. [...]
Last night, I felt like watching a movie. I had four or five to choose from. I wasn’t familiar with any of them by name, so I looked the first one up on IMDB to get a plot synopsis, see the actors, and get a feel for the general quality of the film. I was [...]
I’m dreading holding my daughter’s hand while she gets a dental filling tomorrow. She, in her blissful naivety, is actually looking forward to going to the dentist.